Getting to Know Seattle: Damp Spiders

Seattle’s drippy winter weather hasn’t fully arrived — we’ve had gorgeous sunny fall days — but our mornings are often enshrouded in fog at this time of year. When I took a flattened Amazon box out to recycling early yesterday morning, I saw a captivating image: a spider web beaded with moisture and a very damp spider hunkering down the center, legs drawn in, quite still and miserable. The spider web is constructed between two arbor vitae bushes. I found the visual quite beautiful, although I imagine the spider is longing for the sun to come out and dry up those droplets of moisture on the web.

4 thoughts on “Getting to Know Seattle: Damp Spiders”

for Joyce: Thank you. I was quite fascinated by the way the spider web absorbed moisture and the moisture actually beaded up. I suppose a hard rain would simply take down the web, but our damp fog swelled the thin strands until they looked like this. Spider was miserable in any case, I’d say.